Margaux Allilaire is Counsel in Gide's Banking & Finance team in Paris, specialising in acquisition and corporate finance.

It supports lenders (credit institutions and debt funds) as well as borrowers and sponsors. It is mainly involved in multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts (LBOs), which take the form of bank debt and private bond issues.

She has recently worked on acquisition finance and refinancing transactions for sponsors Ardian, Charterhouse Capital Partners and Seven 2, and has advised Illiad, Groupe Lucien Barrière, Technip and Lactalis on their corporate finance transactions. Lastly, she worked on Véolia's takeover bid for Suez and Five Arrows' delisting of Harvest.

She is a graduate of ESCP Europe (2015) and Université Paris II - Panthéon-Assas (2013). Margaux was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2018. Margaux was seconded to Gide's London office for a year in the Finance team.